The creation does not lie and numbers do not lie.JESUS,the Creator,left His numerical stamp over everything.
I could list a long list of examples but a few are:
7 days in a week Why not 6-8 or 9?
28 days in a creation month[7x4] 29th day new month[full moon to full moon] Why not 25 or 35 days in a month?
The are 12 different notes in a chromatic scale of music. [12 tribes-12 disciples-12 months in a year] Why not 11 or 13?
The NUMBERS do not lie
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Seven days in a week? Might that have a little to do with the story of the creation, and not the actual creation itself?
I suppose he's talking about lunar months, but it still makes very little sense. That's all dependent on orbital periods.
As for 12 different notes in a chromatic scale, someone should really introduce this guy to microtonal music. For that matter, music with a continuous scale instead of one with discrete steps.
Go go gadget numerology!
Oh shit. Where to start with your stupdity - for starters a lunar month is 29½ days not 28.
Hebrew/arabic culture where your stupid fucking myth originated uses quartertones as steps, not semitones so you should be talking about how wonderful the TV show 24 is.
Doh - the shit that fills your head!
Ray - nup, not even a glimmer!
Me - The word you use instead of my.
Fah - is your distance from comprehension.
Soh - wilfully stupid doves cry!
Lah - What you repeat endlessly when you refuse to learn.
Tee - MT is your idiom, idiot!
<<< 7 days in a week Why not 6-8 or 9? >>>
Because the people who made the calendar believed your silly myth.
<<< 28 days in a creation month[7x4] 29th day new month[full moon to full moon] Why not 25 or 35 days in a month? >>>
Because it's based on the lunar calendar, and the moon takes about 29 days to orbit. No mystery there.
<<< The are 12 different notes in a chromatic scale of music. [12 tribes-12 disciples-12 months in a year] Why not 11 or 13? >>>
There are an infinite number of frequencies we could use. Listen to any junior high band that forgot to tune before their performance if you want proof. It's just convenient to stick to a fixed set so we don't have to retune our instruments constantly.
The number of days in a week or completely determined by mankind you nitwit. There could be 10 if we wanted, but we say there's 7. Guess what else? There's 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds in a day. Why wouldn't God make it an even twenty four? Why did He make a year 365.25 days long instead of an even 365?
All of those numbers, except the lunar month, are arbitrary and in no way laid down by a divine spirit. You can find the "numerical proof" for anything if you stretch your imagination to incredible lengths.
From the most holy Principia Discordia:
The Law of Fives states simply that: ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES, OR ARE DIVISIBLE BY OR ARE MULTIPLES OF FIVE, OR ARE SOMEHOW DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY APPROPRIATE TO 5.
The Law of Fives is never wrong.
In the Erisian Archives is an old memo from Omar to Mal-2: "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."
There 12 notes in a chromatic scale because there were 12 tribes and 12 disciples? You're an idiot.
There are 8 notes in a well-tempered major scale because my dick is 8 inches long.
There are 3 notes in a triad because my front door is 3 feet wide.
The concert pitch of A=440 was established because I once had a car with a piston diplacement of 440 cubic inches.
Numbers don't lie, people lie with numbers.
BTW, the 7 day week has nothing to do with the Genesis stories, it's because your I.Q. is 7.
There where less months. Then Julius and Augustus both decided they wanted to be months to.
July and August.
Nope, they re-named existing months.
The Romans, while using the same month system as we do did not use weeks. They instead measured from the beginning of the month and the halfway point of the month. This halfway point was called the ides (singular, despite the "S").
Thus the famous phrase from Shakespeare's play "Beware the ides of March." Caesar was stabbed to death on March 15th, the middle day of March according to the Roman calendar.
I'll bet you dollars to donuts that a 7 day sub-lunar calendar division is extremely rare under traditional calendars from any non-abrahamic influenced area.
@Papabear
There are 8 notes in a well-tempered major scale because my dick is 8 inches long.
7 notes in the major scale. Temperament (and you meant equal temperament, more than likely--we really don't use well temperament anymore) has little to do with it, and there are such things as five- and seven-tone equal temperament. Octatonic scales are used occasionally in Western music, but a seven-note scale is by far the most prevalent.
That said, his idea that the number of half-steps in a typical major or minor scale in Western music comes from the number of disciples, tribes, or months in a year is utterly ridiculous.
Justin M -- "7 notes in the major scale." Seven different, OK. Eight if you put the octave on top.
Equal tempermant, well-tempered, I hear them both in my work. You're right that equal tempered is more specifically descriptive.
"there are such things as five- and seven-tone equal temperament."
Of course there are, but my dick isn't 5 inches long.
Temperaments and number of steps, 1/2 steps. 1/4 steps, whatever steps, are all human impositions.
"The four elements!?
The four kingdoms!?"
Greeks or some old culture arround during the time the OT was writen believed the Universe was made from four elements. And another FSTDT quote had listed 5 kingdoms (animal,miniral,human,plant,god) (human was aparently omented).
Somebody REALLY needs to read Carl Sagan's book Broca's Brain , especially the chapter titled "Norman Bloom, Messenger of God." It really does a beautiful job of showing how utterly baseless all this numerological junk is.
Numbers do not lie?
Okay, then I submit.
Three businessmen travelling together are passing thru a small town in the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. They can't get it fixed until the next morning so they check into the only motel in town. It is a small motel and they happen to have only one room available and the owner says they will have to share the room and charges each man $10.00 or $30.00 total. After they go to the room, the owner starts feeling a little guilty for charging that much and gives his son $5.00 and tells him to return it to the three men. On the way, the son figures 3 men would not be able to split $5.00 evenly, so he puts $2.00 in his pocket and gives them $3.00 back, or each man $1.00. They have therefore each paid $9.00. That makes the room total $27.00. Add the $2.00 the son put in his pocket and that adds up to $29.00. What happened to the other dollar?
I guess God took it. Praise Jesus.
10 X 3 = 30
(10 X 3) = 30 - 5 = 25
(10 X 3) = 30 - (3 + 2) = 25
(30 - 3) + 2 = 29 or [(10 X 3) - (1 x 3)] + 2 = 29
The owner has 25 dollars, the kid 2 and the guests 3.
25+3+2=30
This joke is as old as the world. The "mistake" is that they all paid 9 instead of 10 since they got 3 dollar back, but they also paid the 2 that the boy stole.
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What about hexadecimal, bitch?
Octal...
Anyone got a 101010 tattoo? (Yeah, '42' in binary)
A lunar month isn't the same as a 'seasonal' month. There are 28, 29, 30 or 31 days in the months, thereby blowing your asinine theory out of the water.
Why are most of the weekdays named after Aesir gods and goddesses? Why are most of the months named after Greek or Roman gods and goddesses?
Why not 30 or 31 days in a month?
If NUMBERS do not lie, why aren't there 12 months, with exactly 28 days each (and each day exactly 24 hours), in a year?
(Wait, don't we get a second more this year than last year? How is that explained by creation? God is getting tired of swinging the Earth around and it's getting slower and slower?)
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